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Title: Wine of Cardui
Description: Photograph of drugstore window advertising "Wine of Cardui", a patent medicine in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries.

Title: These 14 Cars Sold To The City Of St. Louis
Description: Photograph of fleet of Ford Model T automobiles in front of St. Louis city hall. Drivers are in each car, several men are standing in front of the cars holding a banner that reads "These 14 cars sold to the city of St. Louis, watch the Fords go by."

Title: Railway Locomotive With Trainmen
Description: Photograph of rear of a railway locomotive travelling away from the camera. Trainmen and an engineer are on the back of the Tender.

Title: Washington Avenue
Description: A photograph of Washington Avenue looking west. Automobiles, pedestrians, electric streetcars and horse-drawn wagons are visible., This is a wider view of another photograph in the collection.

Title: Boatman's Bank Building
Date: 1900-03
Description: 14x11 in photograph of the old Boatman's Bank building in March of 1900. A sign for Shapleigh Hardware adorns the building and there is an advertisement in the foreground for recreational boating on the Meramec River.

Title: Smokestack Repair
Description: Photograph of a pair of smokestacks, one of which is being worked on by a group of men near the top of the stack. The upper stories and roofs of 901 and 911 Washington Avenue are visible in the background., 901 Washington Avenue is the Bankers Lofts building. 911 Washington is the Lammert Building. Note the eagle sculptures, which have been removed, along the top of the cornice.

Title: Sidewalk, Street And Lot
Description: Photograph looking along city sidewalk with major street on one side and vacant lot on the other. Horse-drawn carriages and electric streetcars are visible in the street. A surveyor is working in the vacant lot and a couple of men on the sidewalk are looking towards the camera., There is a building in the background with "W. J. Lemp Brewing Co." on the front.

Title: Urban Horse Herd
Description: Photograph of herd of horses in urban neighborhood. Two men appear to be trying to corral the horses.

Title: Second Street Intersection
Description: Photograph of the intersection of Second Street with another street with men working in the middle of the intersection. The workers are putting a ladder down a manhole. A man is visible in the background with his foot on an automobile and appears to be lighting a cigarette. Other people are visible in the background and midground watching the workers and the photographer., Notice the woman looking out of the second story window of the Saloon building in the background.

Title: Women of the Gymnastic Association Sokol in St. Louis, 1900
Date: 1900
Description: Members of the Sokol women's gymnastics team, circa 1900. The group was under the direction of instructor A. Tesar. This photograph was donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by the Gymnastic Association Sokol.

Title: Signs On Tree
Description: Photograph of tree along South 11th Street with signs attached to it. The tree is in front of Lami Pharmacy, which was at the intersection of South 11th Street and Lami Street.

Title: Demolition Site
Description: Photograph of site where house has just been demolished in the midst of an urban area. Piles of large foundation stones are visible on the site and part of the foundation is still in place. Horse-drawn carts are visible on the site.

Title: Wrecked Dorris
Description: Photograph of Dorris automobile that has been in a wreck. An American flag has been tied between the headlamps., The Dorris Motor Car Company was founded and based in St. Louis.

Title: Jaccard Building Bell Tower
Description: This photograph shows a rooftop view of the domed bell tower at the top of the Jaccard Building. The Jaccard Building stood at the corner of Broadway and Locust Street, at 407 N. Broadway. In the distance there are several industrial buildings and smokestacks billowing streams of gray and white smoke.

Title: Horse And Hole
Description: Photograph of a horse either being lowered into or lifted out of a hole in a city street. A ladder has been lowered into the hole, several men are in the foreground directing the block and tackle. A crowd of observers surrounds the work.

Title: Men of the Gymnastic Association Sokol in St. Louis, 1900
Date: 1900
Description: Members of the Sokol men's gymnastics team, circa 1900. The group was under the direction of instructor A. Tesar. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by the Gymnastic Association Sokol.

Title: Saint Louis Riverfront, Circa 1900
Description: Photograph of the St. Louis Riverfront, circa 1900. The U. S. Snagboat Horatio G. Wright is in the background. Positioned in front of it is the steam tug, Ella St. Clair, which operated on the riverfront from 1898 - 1902. An excursion steamboat and another boat are to the right of the image. Women and children are walking the levee.

Title: Ice, Coal and Wood
Description: Photograph of ice, coal and wood stand in downtown St. Louis. The rear of St. Louis City Hall is visible in the background., Note the top of the front facade central spire visible above the roof line, this was removed in 1936.

Title: Street Lamps
Description: Photograph of rainy city street with street lamps visible in the foreground. Street trolleys are visible in the background.

Title: Boys at Construction Site
Description: Photograph of five boys standing along the base of a poured concrete wall at a construction site. Two men are visible standing on top of the wall.

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Mercantile Library Collections Directory

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